A friend told me the other day he doesn't resonate with non-duality because he can't agree that "everything is perfect and there are no problems."

He sees many pressing problems in the world and feels called to help solve them.

My reply to this is that it's not either/or, it's…

Both / neither / far beyond either.

On one level everything is perfect at all times and there are no problems.

On another level we've incarnated as humans in this layer of the Mystery, and part of this human experience is absolutely acknowledging the suffering and struggle here and assisting in remedying it.

Both can be true at once.

(So, if you feel called to help alleviate suffering on Earth, by all means help! Your impulse to help is part of the perfection!)

In another sense, neither is true: Both miss other side(s) of the coin; Both aren't complete; each statement has its limitations.

And going deeper still:

All language-based statements are utterly insufficient. The actuality of what this reality is, is infinitely beyond all definition or description.

The meta-question, “Which of these conceptual statements is true?,” is already rooted in an inaccurate assumption that the Mystery could ever be compressed, contained, or comprehended within the mental-conceptual apparatus implied by the question.

Thus: The true answer is far beyond either option—far beyond *any* sayable option. No language-based answer is possible.

Ayahuasca and Free Will

I began contemplating “both / neither / far beyond either” more deeply after an experience on ayahuasca.

In this experience, I had the apparent experience of speaking directly with Mystery / Source / Infinity / Tao / All.

I asked, “So do we have free will, or is it all predestined?”

The answer I received was:

“Both, neither, and far beyond either.”

This answer resonated more deeply with me than anything I’d ever heard on the subject.

For years I had intuited that somehow both free will and predestination were true, but the “neither, and far beyond either” aspect of the answer added some fresh spice and dimensionality.

I continued on with my life, letting this answer marinate for months, until one day it occurred to me…

What if “both / neither / far beyond either,” is the answer to every question?

The Answer to Every Question

I started applying this to more of the most notorious metaphysical conundrums of the ages, and what I began to see was gloriously elegant…

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Does God exist or not exist?

Both, neither, and far beyond either.

God exists: “God” is another word for All / Mystery.

God does not exist: All images/concepts we associate with the word “God” are not accurate impressions of what Mystery, in actuality, is.

Neither is true: “God” and “existence” are synonyms so the question is redundant and nonsensical. Furthermore, “God” and “exist” are simply words/concepts that cannot contain reality.

Far beyond either: The dualistic, this-or-that, conceptual apparatus implied by the question, is hopelessly insufficient. Reality cannot be contained or comprehended within this structure, or within any linguistic-conceptual answer that could be provided.

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Is the world of form real/true, or is the formless real/true?